Call for rental help for aged-care workers
Catholic Health Australia has called on Labor to subsidise rents for its staff, as it warns older Australians will pay more for care without a radical boost in government funding.
Aged Care
How to stay in control when it’s time for aged care
All Australians will need help as they move into older age. How will you know when it’s time for support? What are your options, and what are you entitled to?
Greens senator labels Marles a sell-out in bizarre rant
David Shoebridge has accused Defence Minister Richard Marles of spending billions of dollars of public money on weapons companies and then looking to take up ‘lucrative jobs with them afterwards.’
UnitingCare axes private health deal
Up to 2.5 million health fund members may no longer be able to use their hospital cover amid a deepening crisis over the viability of private hospitals around the nation.
Self-funded retirees’ $40k extra bill for nursing home user-pays
Some self-funded retirees soon face an average $40k extra coming out of their own pocket.
Call to make aged care more like Medicare
The nation’s independent aged care overseer is urging the Albanese government to tear up parts of its planned new aged care act so that care becomes a universal entitlement for older Australians, like Medicare.
Aged-care pay rises for 250,000 to be phased in
Wage rises of up to 13.5 per cent for 250,000 aged-care workers will be paid in two tranches by October next year.
Union warns pay rise delay will create staff crisis
Health workers says they will consider quitting if wage increases are delayed.
Indigenous voice ‘won’t advise on Australia Day’
Linda Burney declares the voice to parliament won’t give advice on changing Australia Day, as she comes under continued questioning from the Coalition.
New aged care funding a ‘game changer’
The new funding boost in aged care to pay 15 per cent higher wages to nurses and care workers will save some nursing homes from going under, Catholic Health Australia chief executive Pat Garcia says.
More stars as care homes improve
The quality of nursing homes has lifted since late last year, the new star rating system shows.
Putin presses generals for Ukraine gains
Vladimir Putin has publicly pressured his generals for successes in Ukraine as civilians restore services damaged in the latest Russian bombardment.
Boomers advance on aged care
Ageing baby boomers could see demand for high-end aged-care surge by 9 per cent annually for the next two decades, with nursing home beds set to almost double to 350,000.
Germaine’s life as an aged-care ‘inmate’
After returning to Australia to sell her home, Germaine Greer, 83, put herself into aged care last year. As Covid lockdowns came and went, she was at times ‘not a patient, but an inmate’.
MS nurse boost to ‘save millions’
Advocates for disabled Australians needing specialist care are calling out for more federal funding to increase the number of nurses.
Debt’s day of reckoning is coming
A reality check is due any day now, and word from Canberra’s insiders is it will be a ‘rude shock’ to a reform-shy political class.
‘It’s so good to have a helping hand’
The last thing Keren McCullagh wants after losing her mobility several years ago is to be taken out of her home and put in aged care.
Billions lost in aged-care transfers
Australia could save billions of dollars spent on aged-care if GPs could treat patients in residential facilities, a report has found.
Stricken home to cut back on staff
A nursing home where 19 residents lost their lives in NSW’s worst aged care COVID cluster has admitted it is currently in the process of slashing staff hours.
Non-drug care ‘much better for dementia’
Non-drug dementia treatments deliver significantly better outcomes than pharmacological interventions, study reveals.
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